Track-scraper for street-railways.



B. M. BENNETT. TRACK SCRAPER FORYSTREET RAILWAYS. APPLICATION FILED IAN-12.19l6- RENEWED NOV-b19163.

BAEEN'T M. BENNETT, OF JORDAN, NEW YORK.

TBACK-SORAPER FOR STREET-RAILVJAYS.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Jan. 2, 1917.

Application filed January 12, 1916, Serial No. 71,748. ,Renewed November 1, 1916. Serial No. 129,036.

To all. whom it may concern:

Be it lrngwn that I, Bannvr M. BENNETT, a citizen of the United States, residing .at Jordan, in the county of Onondaga and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Track- Scrapers for Street-Railways; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

The primary object of this invention is to improve the construction of track clearers for the horizontal, flanges of the rails of the rabbeted type by providing a clearer that will effectively clean the flanges and deflect the collected matter outwardly and between the rails.

A further objectof .the invention is to provide a clearer forcarrying out the above objects, that will be of simple construction, cheap to manufacture, will be durable and efficient in operation and which can be applied to any type of car and can be conveniently operated.

Other objects will appear and be better understood from that embodiment of my invention of which the following is the specilication, reference being had to the accompanying drawing forming a part thereof, in which Figure 1 is a longitudinal sectional view taken through the front platform of a car, and through the front truck and showing one of the track clearer-s in operative position, *ig. 2 is a top plan view of the companion clearers, showing tne same removed from the car truck, Fig. 3 is a front elevation of the scraper.

Referring to the drawings in detail, the letter A designates the frontplatform of a street railway car, B the front transverse bar for the front truck frame, C the front axle, D one of the front wheels and 'E the inner flange carried by the wheel D.

The letter F designates thetread of one of the track rails, the said rail having the ordinary horizontally disposed flange designated G located at its inner side and which is engaged by the flange E of the adjacent wheel D of the truck.

The track clearer consists of a pair of scrapers designated 1 and 2, each consisting of an elongated plate 3, adapted to be low,- ered on the flange G and has its forward end beveled to provide a cutting edge 4, adapted to scrape along the flange G, the outer longitudinal edge of the plate 3 being beveled to provide the cutting edge 5, which gradually merges into the forward cutting edge 4 as shown at 6. The inner longitudinal edge of the plate 3 is provided with a vertically disposed guide plate 7, which extends along the said inner longitudinal edge of the plate 3, for the major portion of the length of the plate and is adapted to engage againstthe inner side of the tread portion of the adjacent rail F, the said guide plate 7 having its forward edge beveled to provide the cutting edge 8, so as to effectively clean the inner side of the tread F of the rail. The rear end of the guide plate 7 is deflected inwardly as shown at 9 to provide a deflector plate for deflecting the collected material inwardly of the rail. The rear end of the plate 3 is reduced as shown at 10 and extended beyond the rear side of the defiector plate 9 and is provided with a pair of spaced openings 11.

The front transverse bar B of the truck frame, has associated therewith, a pair of leaf hinges 12. Each of these hinges has one leaf thereof secured to the side B, of the truck frame, and has the other leaf connected to one rear end of one of the plates 3, and is secured thereto by means of bolts 13 which extend through the leaf and through the openings 11 in the rear end of the plate 3.

The clearers 1 and 2 have connection with each other by means of a connecting rod 14. This connecting rod 14: has its opposite ends extending through openings formed in the respective guide plates 7 as shown in Fig.

2, and secured thereto by means of nuts 15.

The track clearers or scrapers 1 and 2 are raised from or lowered to operative position preferably by means of manually controlled operating mechanism shown in Fig. 1 of the drawing. This operating mechanism consists of a vertically disposed rod 16, the

lower end of which is provided with an eye 17 which loosely receives the connecting rod 14, said rod 16 having its upper end extending through an opening 17 formed in the platform A of the car and terminally connected to an operating lever 18, the said operating lever 18 having one end pivoted to the front end bar of the car body, and is adapted to be held in various adjusted positions by means of a segmental rack 19 carried by the said end bars of the car, and the pivoted locking pawl carried by the lever. and which is adapted to interchange ably engage the teeth of! the segmental rack 19.

In use, the lever 18 is unlocked and forced do\\'n\\"ardly so as to position the forward ends of the plates 3 of the scrapers or clearers l and 2 on the flange G of the rails. When the scrapers are thus positioned, the guide plates 7 engage against the inner sides of the treads of the rails and the cutting edges 8 on the guides 7 and the cutting edges it on the forward ends of the plates 3 scrape along the adjacent flanges G and re move the matter adhering thereto. The collected matter, is caused, during the travel of the car, to travel upwardly on the plate 3, and coming in contact with the deflecting plate avill be directed and deposited inwardly of the rails so as to be collected in the ordinary manner. Duringthe passage of the car across the intersecting track rails or switches, the lever 18 is pulled upwardly resulting in the clearers or scrapers 1 and 2 being withdrawn from operative position so as to be free of the tracks.

What is claimed is 1. A clearer of the class described consisting of a pair of scrapers adapted to be hingedly connected to a car body and each comprising an elongated base plate having its forward end provided with a cutting edge, a guide plate carried by the base plate and provided with a cutting edge, and a deflector plate carried by the base plate and located in rear of the guide plate.

2. A clearer of the class described consisting of a pair of scrapers each comprising an elongated base plate having its forward end providedvvith a cutting edge, a guide plate carried by the base late and provided with a cutting edge, a de ector plate carried by the base plate and located in rear of the guide plate, and a connecting bar having its opposite ends connected to the guide plates of the scrapers.

In testimony whereof I aflix my signature in presence of tWo .witnesses.

BARENT l\ I. BENNETT. Witnesses: I

HARRY B. BUD, FRANK JANLY.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents,

' Washington, D. 0." 

